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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Thompson Toolkit (was Re: Where can I get MKS toolkit?)
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Date: 14 Jun 91 15:33:21 GMT
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feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:

>valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
>>Could someone explain to me why it is more "Unix-ish" to have C:foo mean
>>C:\foo instead of C:.\foo?  The later is obviously what the user
>>intends; the former is just a bug.

>iThe latter is *not* obviously what this user intends; it is about 50%
>either way. The result is that about 50% of the time I have to edit
>the command and re-execute, at which time the Korn shell command line
>editing feature is greatly appreciated.

I have yet to hear anyone cogently argue *why* inserting the backslash
is someone more "Unixy".  Forgetting completely for the moment how DOS
works (although noting in passing that the lack of "drives" in Unix is
something of an annoyance; it makes it impossible to have more than one
current directory in Unix), please explain how the concept of "C:foo"
should map to *anything* in Unix.

Are you saying that in Unix, "foo" should be synonymous with "\foo" ?
(Oops, er, I mean, "/foo")

BTW, don't get me wrong; I'm not a DOS weenie; I grew up on Unix, after
which DOS was a piece of cake.  (I pity people who have to go the other way)
But I couldn't resist the above...
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